They don't want to admit they have fucked the game, and fix their 're-work'. Think they recently came out supporting the changes and standing up to the complaints saying some trash like 'overwatch will always cater to all skill levels.'

The irony is Mercy is still my most played hero overall. She's my least favourite healer though and I've reached a point where I'm fed up of playing her, but I feel like I'm holding back if I pick another healer.

I don't really know what they can do to fix the situation in fairness. I don't want the old Mercy back.

Just have her beam slowly charge up a meter as it's used. When it's full, she can make both her target and herself invincible for a short time. This allow you to push into a choke point and force the enemy back. This is an entirely original idea I just thought of myself.

The old mercy was a bit annoying. Losing a fight cause she rez'd the full team who purposely died on point didn't feel good. But it didn't break the game, or change the whole game if you didn't have a mercy. It changed one fight.

Having a rez every 30 seconds is a must use ability. If the other team is bringing people back to life every 30 seconds and you're not, you have LOST THE GAME not just a fight. I haven't even gone into how stupid the ultimate is, but tbh the ultimate isn't really the problem. I'd be fine with the crazy full team healing/damage boosting, crazy unkillable flying, and a rez every 10 seconds. So long as she can't rez throughout the whole game, and it is an ultimate that isn't ridiculously quick to get.

Lucio: Boop people off the map, keep moving, bear in mind jumping off a wall-run grants you some speed and momentum, know when to switch songs between heal and speed (this will come with time), jump about and fire in the direction of the enemy.

Winston. Only leap in when you have a shield to drop down. Harass the backline/squishies and leap out (usually) once its off cd.

Try to land on people when you land from your jump. It does a decent amount of damage and means you can almost certainly finish them off with your lightning.

Stay away from reapers and hogs - although hog isnt quite so much a counter now.

If you have an Ana, keep that in mind when you leap to stay in LOS. Remember she cant heal through enemy shields.

If a Zarya on your team, try to get her to bubble you before you leap in, then save the shield long enough for her one to be used up to give her an easy boost to her damage.

Lucio. Just run around booping people. Use speed boost quite a lot (change his settings so that its hold for speed boost instead of toggle - much better to use). Also, you can vaguely ignore doing healing (as its automatic) and just focus on shooting at stuff.

Edit: One other thing with Winston and KotH maps. You can leap out of spawn, then its usually off cd early enough so you can leap to the far side of the point and drop your shield. This buys enough time for your team to push straight on the point behind you. If your team can be relied on to do that.

Lucio: Boop people off the map, away from yourself and teammates in danger. Booping a charging Rein, or ulting opponent can win you fights. Boop is also a great finisher in cleaning up low HP enemies during fights.
Communication is key, so talk, and make sure teammates follow you. Speed boost is important, always use it when you ult. If you've won a fight an enemies are retreating, speed boost with a team mate or two to finish them off and stager their spawn.
Two options with his ult, as an offensive initiator, or as defence. Great against tact visor, but against gravaton it's probably a waste. Use it to keep you're tanks alive if they're low.

Unfortunately most people are saying Lucio isn't really meta now because of Mercy. They mostly say Mercy Zen is better.

Winston: Don't know as much. But jump on solo targets/enemies out of position. You can kill most 200HP targets.
Try not to jump into a full team, you'll get blown up. Though if you have ult it's fine jumping in and ulting when you're low HP. Usually though its best to go in without using jump ability, getting bubble down, dealing damage, and jumping out when low. Easier to play Winston with Zaraya bubbles.

Unfortunately Winston is not great at the minute cause Hog is back and destroys him. Also Reaper destroys him.

Winston, a good percentage of the time you want to drop on squishes from above then jump out. If you jump in solo, the chances are you are dead before the cd comes off, unless you have a healer or dive partner.

We've just been discussing this in the Xbox One X thread, but can any fellow Xbox One players confirm if this happens to them: sometimes when the Play of the Game replay is being shown, most of the characters being shot haven't actually loaded in yet and the replay consists of someone just randomly shooting the scenery and racking up the kills.

Can't decide if this is just the game loading in the models too slowly, or if my hard drive is fucked.

@-HairyArse I see it every now and then. Can't remember if I've seen it happen since switching to the One X though. I'll make sure to look out for it, but I'm mainly just happy the tearing is gone, even if it was infrequent. I hate screen tear!

I've seen it on PS4 too. I don't play the game there but have a few friends who do, and they post gameplay on social media now and then.

Does it happen with every PotG for you? I'd only see it every now and then on the base console. Kind of like when you select a hero at the start of a round and it can take a few seconds to see your teammates load in - that still happens on One X, at least.

Although I do have it installed on an external drive. I might move it to internal later, see if that makes a difference.

Season finishing tomorrow, so decided to do my last three placement matches. Won all three for a 7:3 win:loss ratio. Assigned an SR of 1073, way down in Bronze and several hundred off where I was last season. Feck you, Blizzard.

docrob wrote:
Season finishing tomorrow, so decided to do my last three placement matches. Won all three for a 7:3 win:loss ratio. Assigned an SR of 1073, way down in Bronze and several hundred off where I was last season. Feck you, Blizzard.

Followed by two narrow losses this evening and a demotion to an SR of about 980. There is no way I will ever climb out of Bronze now. May as well give up Comp entirely.